The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1887-03-31
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CURRENT COMMENT. L
lis an idiosyncras, Of Nora Perry the
authoress, that she must sit facing the Seer
East when she writes. inurs
Thrt
urxpy WAPn RErcHrR had 400. 900 near L
life insurance, though at one time he Inc
.,,,. tate a
was s"ii.'o NJ ~ ~ no.
Miss MoLLIE GARFIELD, daughter OF o-can
the late President GARFIELD. mas hnisned lands
her studies. She is taller than her Joh,
mother. Wisco
hotel
THE artist TLulstrup has an income Eliz
of $4,000 a year from his etchlngs. win, d
He furnishes page or a double page was
to Harpers Weekly, every week. Ada
cago c
AT Redwood, California, Mrs. Har- anu =
rict A. Moore. who sued Moses Hop a..
kins for x2oO,OOO, Tor breach OF prom build
Sc, was awarded $4,000 by the jury. Louis
Mr..
OVERHEAD telegraph wires had much .ar -.
to do with impeding the work Of the fire was .
department on the occasion of the recent dying
great lire in Buffalo. 1t is the old story. The
Italian
EyANGELIsTs Ross and Goodfellow en- the the
were refused license for their gospel the pa
tent in San Francisco, whercupon they Dur
proceeded to erect it in defiance of the 80 49,
law. posed
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HENRY WARD BEECHER once took in The
door exercise by shcwcling from one gun 81
end of his cellar 10 the other load of iegne
sand which he had put there for the white
purpose. =,
A LITTLE girl asked her brother ne!e
what was capital punishment, and he many
said he thought it was being locked up 1900 a
in the cupboard with the jam and other the %
nice things. The
week
JAMES n. Mann. 81 years old. and for c,
Judge Lawrenson, 81, are the week
patriarchs of the Postal Department are are 6. C
at Washington. They were both ap IT,
pointed in 1881 by President Andrew Brun,
Jackson. Costit
reven
LEGISLATURES are high priced lux .I wa q
urics, that of California costing for its If gui
last session $751; .585, ,6J, and curious M hr -
fact is that the Senate, with half the heaye
membership of the House, cost $65, $780, AT
:. .. eos c.oE for.ho ,,.,xor hoa, Rapp
- ical "
filled
w. ii. HERNDON, the old law partner fell j
sp.,r. e, | splast
oi Iiesiueut Lihcoi'' HIS Ill q iol"'io SO bul
state of preparation another "Life, pieces
which he will publish in the near future. tire cl
This work will deal principally with the cam's mas
career of Mr.. Lincoln up to the time he The
became PRESIDENT. durin
year
PRINCE HENRY of Battenberg has being
consented to preside at festival of the Yea year.
Society of Friends of Foreigners in Dis -. shs
tress, and London paper thinks it very SD, 9
crcditable that he still sympathizes for for III |,
with those who are suffering evils from 1t is
which he has just escaped. Supre
denim
FRANCRs HoDGsON BURNETT began rende
her literary career at L. Her first two ar1au aro.
sketches were printed in Cooley Lady,: and &
Book, for which she received $35 She SWEET
gathered and sold wild grapes in east press.' press.
Tennessee for money to buy the postage verdi
stamps which covered the transmission At
of her stories. fort
was b
A HACKNEY coachman ut Mentone = ..,arn aeaH
got $i00 for single nights use of his the r
-, , 49,. laa,.;-.,, - H. ,,o.,4 o,..h Sleepe
cto Oh lhe oecis'oh "a INC leeent e'i -" were
quake. This man. says a Chicago pa engin
per,would have shonc even among the the fr
hackmen and truckmen who made Aft
themselves famous the night of the Alber
Chicago fire. so1I
angry
A BILL is pending in the New York woul.
~. N vi, | on MI
ieg's'a'"fe incorporating 'ne Ne" AoiA posed
and Hudson Valley Aqueductcompany, antic
with Il capital stock of $50. 100000 for cow.
the purpose of supplying New York, fIo%11 Fr.%1
Brooklyn and other cities and villages with
in the Hudson river valley with pure ,istol D;s
water from the Adirondack re gion. were
CARTER H. HARR,sox declined, ac- and a1s /
was {
cepted and again declined to be tectie
candidate for Mayor of Chicago. and shar ana |,
the last time for the unique reason that police
no Chicago newspaper will be just were :
toward him. and the three newspapers diate
which are the organs of the President
in Chicago urge bis defeat. This is cause
very sad! aster
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EDITOR JOE PULITZER, of the New neer
York World seems to enjoy hot water. c"nrs
Not long ago he knocked down Joe morn
Howard Jf.. the crudlte correspondent, brake
,o,v h. h,s ouarrolled with and han pont
A'"" A'~ -@ t " ~ ~ time
ished Julian Hawthorne. his capable cause
.,,.. wrccl
anu SfacelW Atciary euitof' aho alNf welde
having lampooned and carieatured Ira oory oyytl 4
Shafer, counsel for Aid. Cleary. one of bridg
the accused Broadway surface railroad SuMn four